Gary, I may be off your intended mark, too, but if you obtain a person's marriage date based on the inscription on the back of a photograph in your Aunt Sophie's album, would you not enter the marriage date, cite the photo as the source, and indicate Sophie's album as the repository? Probably does not cover all cases, but I'm not meaning to address the tombstone aspect. Alternatively, if you add the photo on the marriage event, can't you cite Sophie's album as source? (Perhaps I should've tested this before posting... just thinking out loud.)
Thanks for starting this excellent thread! --Paula in Texas Researching: Adair Baker Betz Bigley Blagrave Burton Chapman Clement Clough Coppernoll Costine Daulton Dinwiddie Doody Ellis Exline Field Floran Floyd Gates Goodale Gordon Gump Harbaugh Hopkins Hughes Jones Koyle Laswell McDonald Misner Passwaters Pelton Roberts Roche Ryburn Sullivan Williams ----- Original Message ---- From: Olds-Wills-Anderson-Simonson Hodges-Harris-Liikala-Jukkara <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, February 25, 2011 11:24:01 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Photos as Sources-----Sources for Photos Thank you all for input. Some kept more on the mark than others (my intended mark anyway) but all very interesting perspectives all the same. I was indeed soliciting perspectives on directly linking a source to a photograph in, say, the Picture Center, thus assigning a source citation to a photograph---to record from whom (or where) it came (its origin---its "source"), and of its inscription, if any. I do not see this capability---workarounds possibly (and thank you for the suggestoins), but not a direct sourcing capability. In weighing the pros/cons I remain convinced, at least for my purposes, an image (and audio/video for that matter) should have the capability to be directly sourced in the same fashion as other input (Notes for instance). I would like future generations to know the 'source' of photographs/inscriptions attached to my genealogy in the same way they will know the source of other information. <snip> Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
